Table of Contents
Introduction ............ ix
Acknowledgments ............ xvii
Note on the Texts ............ xix
Selected Bibliography ............ xxi
1. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of New- York (1769) ............ 1
2. Political Enquiries (1776) ............ 5
3. Oration on the Necessity for Declaring Independence from Britain (1776) ............ 13
4. Public Letters to the Carlisle Commissioners (1778) ............ 25
To the Carlisle Commissioners, June 20, 1778 ............ 26
To the Earl of Carlisle, July 21, 1778 ............ 34
To the Earl of Carlisle, September 19, 1778 ............ 37
To Sir Henry Clinton, October 20, 1778 ............ 45
5. Proposal to Congress Concerning the Management of the Government (1778) ............ 53
6. Report of the Committee on the Treasury (1778) ............ 67
7. Some Thoughts on the Finances of America (1778) ............ 73
8. To the Quakers, Bethlemites, Moderate Men, Refugees, and Other the
Tories Whatsoever, and Wheresoever, Dispersed (1779) ............ 87
9. To Governor Johnstone (1779) ............ 95
10. “An American” Letters on Public Finance for the Pennsylvania Packet (1780) ............ 103
February 17, 1780 ............ 104
February 24, 1780 ............ 110
February 29, 1780 ............ 118
March 4, 1780 ............ 124
March 11, 1780 ............ 131
March 23, 1780 ............ 139
April 11, 1780 ............ 146
April 15, 1780 ............ 154
11. Righteousness Establisheth a Nation (1780) ............ 165
12. Observations on Finances: Foreign Trade and Loans (1781?) ............ 171
13. Ideas of an American on the Commerce Between the United States and French Islands As It May Respect Both France and America (1783) ............ 177
14. Address to the Assembly of Pennsylvania on the Abolition of the Bank of North America (1785) ............ 183
15. The Constitution of the United States (1787) ............ 207
Letter to Congress ............ 221
16. American Finances (1789) ............ 223
17. Observations on Government, Applicable to the Political State of France (1789) ............ 231
18. Memoir Written for the King of France, Respecting the New Constitution (1791) ............ 239
19. Observations on the New Constitution of France (1791) ............ 251
Speech for the King of France ............ 251
Observations on the Constitution ............ 252
20. Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France (1791?) ............ 269
21. Remarks upon the Principles and Views of the London Corresponding Society (1795) ............ 285
22. Oration on the Death of George Washington (1799) ............ 293
23. Speeches in the Senate on the Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801 ............ 303
First Speech on the Judiciary Establishment (1802) ............ 304
24. Letters to the New York Evening Post on the Louisiana
Purchase (1803) ............ 333
August 30, 1803 ............ 334
December 24, 1803 ............ 339
25. Funeral Oration for Alexander Hamilton (1804) ............ 353
26. Oration on the Love of Wealth (1805) ............ 357
27. Oration on Patriotism (1805) ............ 361
28. On Prejudice (ca. 1805) ............ 365
29. An Answer to War in Disguise (1806) ............ 369
30. Notes on the United States of America (1806) ............ 405
31. The British Treaty (1807/1808) ............ 423
32. On the Beaumarchais Claim (1807–1808) ............ 473
February 24, 1807 ............ 474
January 11[, 1808] ............ 476
33. To the People of the United States (1810) ............ 485
34. Election Address (1810) ............ 495
35. Letters to the Evening Post on Albert Gallatin’s Plan for Enforcing
the Non- Importation Act (1811) ............ 505
December 19, 1811 ............ 506
December 21, 1811 ............ 508
December 23, 1811 ............ 510
December 24, 1811 ............ 512
December 26, 1811 ............ 514
December 27, 1811 ............ 516
36. Erie Canal Commission Report (1812) ............ 519
37. An Address to the People of the State of New York on the Present State of Affairs (1812) ............ 537
38. Discourse Before the New-York Historical Society (1812) ............ 551
39. Oration Before the Washington Benevolent Society (1813) ............ 573
40. Essays for the Examiner (1814) ............ 587
April 9, 1814 ............ 587
May 14, 1814 ............ 605
June 25, 1814 ............ 608
July 23, 1814 ............ 616
41. Oration on Europe’s Deliverance from Despotism (1814) ............ 623
42. To the Legislators of New York (1815) ............ 635
43. An Inaugural Discourse (1816) ............ 641
44. To the Bank Directors of New–York (1816) ............ 655
45. Address on “National Greatness” (no date) ............ 661
Index ............ 665